Disclaimer: I do not own the Baby Sitters Club or any of its "sister" books. The Baby Sitters Club belongs to Ann M. Martin and Scholastics. I am simply borrowing their characters for a non-profit writing.

Thanks to: Ann M. Martin for writing such a great book series and Christopher Pike for inspiring me with his book, Remember Me. Without these two, this fanfic would not be.

ALSO! Thank you to everyone who read this story! I hope you enjoyed it!

Epilogue

(ZodiacRain, started 6/12/07)

In conclusion, Stacey was found guilty of murder and sent to jail. She couldn't believe that she had murdered Kristy, but to be honest, she truly didn't. The evil force that had possessed her killed Kristy.

And that evil force went on to posses Mary Anne and Dawn. Both, however, subconsciously heard Kristy's final wish and suppressed the evil force. But, as time passed, they forgot Kristy's warning.

Five years after Kristy's murder, Mary Anne worked at a daycare. After a long, hard and particularly unpleasant day, the evil force managed to take control of Mary Anne. The next day, Mary Anne brought a gun to the daycare. Only one of the twenty children managed to escape.

Mary Anne was arrested for nineteen cases of first degree murder and spent the rest of her life in jail, crying over what she did. She'd not only let the evil force control her, but she killed many people, making it stronger. Meanwhile, the only child Mary Anne had managed not to kill grew up to become a serial killer.

Dawn remembered Kristy's warning longer then Mary Anne did. She remembered it long enough to get married to her boyfriend, Hideaki. She also managed to have two children with him. However, one dark day Dawn murdered her best friend, Sunny, and her oldest child's best friend.

Sunny's only daughter eventually worked at a zoo. One particularly busy day, she "imitated" Mary-Anne, and brought a weapon to work….

Few people knew the truth behind these killings. For a long time, an evil force existed alongside humanity, taking over sane people, and spreading from person to person. One strand of this evil force spread to Stacey's father's murderer, then to Stacey herself, and then to Dawn and Mary Anne. Dawn spread it into Sunny's child, who spread it to everyone that happened to survive the incident at the zoo. Mary Anne spread it to the serial killer, who spread it to the families of his victims….

Would the chain ever end? It is unknown, but rumor has it that the victims, like Kristy, will come back some day and attempt to break this chain….

The End

Author's Notes: Thanks, again, for reading this story and sticking through the plot holes and long waiting periods. And thanks to the reviewers! I hope you enjoyed the story as much as I enjoyed writing it! (And I hope no one was offended by the epilogue…) Okay, to wrap up some things:

Why was Stacey possessed? Well, I'm not sure. I actually wrote the basic plot to this a long time ago. (I think I just randomly chose a baby-sitter.) I actually like Stacey's character a lot… And I like Kristy, too.

Why didn't Stacey take off the balloons? Someone pointed this out to me. The force controlling Stacey didn't take off the balloons because it would have been suspicious. It didn't want people asking: "Why did she take off the balloons? Hmm…" (The real reason is that I needed something dramatic... and I wasn't thinking. Plot-hole…)

What's this evil force? Well, that's reader interpretation….

What did the balloon represent? Technically, it represented two things. It represented the balloons Stacey was wearing when she killed Kristy, but it also represented the air bubble in Kristy's blood. (The last idea was borrowed from the book Remember Me by Christopher Pike.)